All 10 Uses of
supposition
in
Anna Karenina
- A feeling such as his was profaned by talk of the rivalry of some Petersburg officer, of the suppositions and the counsels of Stepan Arkadyevitch.†
Part 1 *
- On getting Sviazhsky's letter with the invitation for shooting, Levin had immediately thought of this; but in spite of it he had made up his mind that Sviazhsky's having such views for him was simply his own groundless supposition, and so he would go, all the same.†
Part 3
- Alexey Alexandrovitch made it a rule to see his wife every day, so that the servants might have no grounds for suppositions, but avoided dining at home.†
Part 4
- "Even if your worst suppositions were correct, I don't—and never would—take on myself to judge either side, and I see no reason why our relations should be affected.†
Part 4
- The doctor confirmed his suppositions in regard to Kitty.†
Part 5
- On coming into the room, Seryozha, instead of sitting down to his lessons, told his tutor of his supposition that what had been brought him must be a machine.†
Part 5
- It was only on the supposition that no good nurse would have entered so irregular a household as Anna's that Darya Alexandrovna could explain to herself how Anna with her insight into people could take such an unprepossessing, disreputable-looking woman as nurse to her child.†
Part 6
- The most diverse suppositions as to what he was about to speak of to her flashed into her brain.†
Part 6
- This was not mere supposition, she saw it distinctly in the piercing light, which revealed to her now the meaning of life and human relations.†
Part 7
- Now, as always, interference made him angry, and he felt sorrowfully at once how mistaken had been his supposition that his spiritual condition could immediately change him in contact with reality.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(supposition) something supposed (rather than something known to be so) -- such as a disputed belief or assumption